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All made up
The need to satisfy increasing demand to a growing number of outlets, including home deliveries, led Virgin Cosmetics to reshape its supply chain. Helen Riley explains how the company is now better able to deliver anything from a single lipstick to truckl
Shock waves
The Irish recruitment industry is coming to terms with the decline and fall of high-flyer Marlborough. But where did it all go wrong?
Fine tuning
Tax column The court case and the outcry aside, IR35 has presented tax practitioners with some difficulties but what sort of changes need to be made?
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Euro vision
A ‘business minuet’ is how CIETT’s new president Ken Davidson describes the two steps forward and three steps back of negotiations with Europe’s politicians. But he is determined to change the tempo
Net interest
Jim Norton brings a believer’s zeal to his role as head of the Institute of Directors’ e-commerce team. His mission, he tells Liam O’Brien, is to nail misconceptions about the Internet and help to make the UK the most e-commerce-friendly country in the wo
Changemonger
John Scowen, Havering’s chief purchasing officer, predicts total transformation as the council adopts best value. For starters, his job is disappearing shortly. Alexis Nolan reports
Quick silver
Cost reductions may be a by-product of mergers, but with purchasing’s help, savings can exceed all expectations. Alexis Nolan reports
Saving grace
National Savings needs no redeeming with an unprecedented outsourcing deal that makes it a model for strategic purchasing. Anat Arkin reports
Mind the gap
Economic pressures are forcing Hong Kong to re-evaluate the role of purchasing. But, as Alexis Nolan reports, companies need to act quickly to capitalise on existing, local skills
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